Maps
This was a total ripoff and a waste of money! Don't waste yours!
use during hiking
Use it all the when I am hiking.
Not the right app
When purchasing this App I was looking for more of a GPS App. I diden't realize you had to up load the maps on to my Itunes and I am unapble to do this without an I-pad or phone. Please refund my account so I can sontinue to search for I am looking for.
Thank you so very much
Nancy A.Greene
Thank you so very much
Nancy A.Greene
errors
I just get errors and freezeups while trying to open a some topo tiffs imported via itunes. Very clunky interface. Useless.
Unintuitive and slow to pre-render. Transit Maps is better.
The layout of Maps is unintuitive; there are too many buttons which do similar things. A message keeps popping up advising me that pre-rendering would be faster, but then the pre-render button has vanished. Maybe that's because it's currently pre-rendering, but this is not clear. Anyway, why the big long delay to pre-render something? Why not just treat the PDF or TIFF as tiles, and have the tile I'm zooming in on render? That would be much more efficient. Transit Maps does this well, making it a much better app than this for viewing maps (if only it had a better UI for getting maps in and out of the app). To me, these are the key requirements of a large file viewing app: tiling and good import/export options. Maps does ok at the latter, but not the former.
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Million free maps out there!
Google says there are like a million free maps out there, but until this app dealing with your normal topographical map on the iPad was a disaster. fuzzy drawing, fade in, scroll pain, crash, boom. This app is so slick, prerender magic and you can zoom scroll no problems. Best of all I can use Dropbox or the itunes connection feature to move maps around. Bonus I realized the Dropbox panel caches downloaded maps so I don't need 3G in the field to get a map up.
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As many maps as I can find
Not sure why anyone would want to buy those apps that bundle up a single map for the same price as this one. With this app and some time in Google I can find maps for everywhere, and load them into my dropbox account or into local storage. More more cost effective, besides all the other apps seem to deal just with 24x18 inch paper sizes, not the WALL size 36MB PDF files this one is happy to work with and scrolling is soo painful with those other apps.
PS bonus I discovered it reads TIF based FAX files too, feature creep I guess.
PS bonus I discovered it reads TIF based FAX files too, feature creep I guess.
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Canadian Maps
It's great their website points to our government of canada website for downloading free maps. I found the North Cicumpolar region map so detailed an so interesting, no wonder the U S A wants to change the northern boundaries to match their political economical desires. This maps was impossible to view in i.books. I had to restore my iPad after attempting to see it in i.books as it entered an endless crash me loop.
Just like they claims you can view any sized map, at least anyone I could lay my hands on with this app. Some are *wall* sized!
Just like they claims you can view any sized map, at least anyone I could lay my hands on with this app. Some are *wall* sized!
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Fantastic App to view maps with, or other large PDF files
Wow I was blown away by the Maps found in the United Nations Environment Programme website like the Biodiversity loss: state and scenarios 2006 and 2050. In the past trying to view that on my iPhone was impossible. It might only be 5MB but when you zoomed in things turned into sloppy thick oil movements, and forget about scrolling, sometimes the tiling just never quiet, blurry, clear, blurry clear.
This app brings up a crystal clear image and you can scroll about as fast as you can twist your finger. Just like they promised.
Best thing for me is the Dropbox support because I can stuff the maps into the cloud, then I discovered they cache it locally so I can view things on the bus on my iPad without 3G. Just a wonderful feature.
This app brings up a crystal clear image and you can scroll about as fast as you can twist your finger. Just like they promised.
Best thing for me is the Dropbox support because I can stuff the maps into the cloud, then I discovered they cache it locally so I can view things on the bus on my iPad without 3G. Just a wonderful feature.
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I can open these?
I never expected to ever be able to open some of my highest resolution topographicals. Who on earth has ever heard of opening a 3ftx4ft high res map on their phone?
It's true: there's an app for everything.
5 stars for letting me open these and then scroll them faster than my useless laptop.
It's true: there's an app for everything.
5 stars for letting me open these and then scroll them faster than my useless laptop.
Impossible
I've had to lug maps into the kootenay mountains for surveying before, and believe you me, it isn't fun. Getting the digital maps we get to load on the iphone has been, of course, impossible.
This little baby does that, and once loaded, it does it fast. I can get the detail right down to each individual power pole and well.
A great app.
This little baby does that, and once loaded, it does it fast. I can get the detail right down to each individual power pole and well.
A great app.
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